A new ad campaign for the new Ford Figo model has received angry response from various sections of the society and might convince the company scrap plans for its distribution.

The new poster campaign, which is designed by JWT India, showed former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, socialite Paris Hilton and Formula One driver Michael Schumacher in an inappropriate manner. The ad also showed Kardashian sisters from the reality television show in the US being hauled by Hilton and the sisters had indicated that they are considering legal options against the auto major.

London, Feb 25 : Three topless protesters targeted Italy's former premier Silvio Berlusconi as he went to a polling station in Milan to vote in the country's general election.

As voters queued at a polling station at a Milan school, the three half-naked women, who had the slogan "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough With Berlusconi") scrawled on their backs, broke through a crowd of journalists.

The topless trio then jumped over some tables toward the former leader, but they failed to reach him.

London, Jan 28 : Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi provoked outrage at a ceremony to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day when he said that Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini had done some good for Italy.

Speaking on the sidelines of the ceremony, he even defended Mussolini for supporting Adolf Hitler, saying he probably made an alliance with the Nazis because he feared Germany's potential expansion.

London, Jan 25 : AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has once again tried to simmer down rumours around Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli’s move to San Siro, saying the Italian giants don’t have enough funds to secure his signing.

The striker’s agent Mino Raiola was due to hold talks with City boss Roberto Mancini on Thursday, the Sun reports.

Controversial Italian Prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi has said that said he will resign after an austerity package passes in the country’s Parliament next week.

He has seen several defections among supporters in the last few days over political uncertainties ever after Berlusconi managed to win a vote of confidence recently. The defections caused the government to miss having a majority in a budget vote. However, it passed due to abstentions.

London, Sept 16 : Silvio Berlusconi hired more than 30 women, most of them prostitutes, to attend his infamous ‘bunga bunga’ parties at his mansion in Rome, Italian investigators said on Thursday.

Prosecutors presented the results of a two-year investigation into claims that Mr Berlusconi entertained what the Italian press describe as “a harem” of young models, actresses and starlets at his private residence in Rome in 2008 and 2009, reports the Telegraph.

London, Dec 30 : Silvio Berlusconi is all set use the attack on him for political gains - the Italian Prime Minister will use posters of his bloodied face for a campaign of his People of Freedom Party.

Berlusconi, 73, had his nose fractured and lost two teeth besides serious cuts to his gums and lips, when a man smashed his face with a souvenir of Milan''s cathedral after a rally in the city on December 13.

Rome (Italy), Dec. 22 : Embattled Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may use the sympathy wave arising out of a December 13 attack on himself as a useful means of dividing the opposition, rebuilding his popularity, and manipulating the country''s judicial system.

Now recuperating from injury at his home in Arcore, Italy, Berlusconi has begun strategising for dealing with his divorce by his wife, accusations of corruption in two long-standing trials, and alleged to have slept with a prostitute at his palazzo in Rome.

London, December 20 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has decided to make a public comeback on Christmas Eve, even though his doctors and family have advised him to take a break from politics following the Milan attack.

The leader informed his party members that he would take time off to visit the earthquake-devastated village of Onna in L’Aquila in central Italy on the

Christmas eve, reports the Times.

The premier’s daughter Marina has reportedly “begged” him to take it easy.

London, December 17 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been in the hospital for four successive nights after the Milan attack, raising concerns that he may have suffered a long-term physical and psychological damage.

Massimo Tartaglia, an electronics engineer with mental problems had hurled a spiked marble and metal model of Milan cathedral at him at the end of a rally on the cathedral square.

Rome, Dec 16 : A video game has surfaced on the Internet challenging players to strike Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as many times as they can with replicas of the northern Italian city of Milan's Cathedral.

The game appeared just two days after Massimo Tartaglia made headlines around the world for striking Berlusconi in the face with a small alabaster souvenir statuette of the Milan landmark.

The electronics engineer, who has been kept in solitary confinement after punching the premiere with a marble and metal souvenir, told police that he hated the Prime Minister because “that man is ruining Italy. I don’t agree with anything he says”, reports The Times.